William Edmondstoune Aytoun Professions : Poet Born : June 21, 1813 Died : August 4, 1865 Browse All Authors Top 8 quotes by William Edmondstoune Aytoun Nowhere beats the heart so kindly as beneath the tartan plaid! William Edmondstoune Aytoun plaid beats art He is coming! He is coming! Like a bridegroom from his room, Came the hero from his prison To the scaffold and the doom. William Edmondstoune Aytoun prison hero rooms Give me but one hour of Scotland, Let me see it ere I die. William Edmondstoune Aytoun scottish scotland giving The earth is all the home I have, the heavens my wide roof-tree William Edmondstoune Aytoun home tree heaven They bore within their breasts the grief That fame can never heal- That deep, unutterable woe Which none save exiles feel. William Edmondstoune Aytoun woe boredom grief Fhairshon had a son, William Edmondstoune Aytoun daughter believe son Do not lift him from the bracken, Leave him lying where he fell- Better bier ye cannot fashion: None beseems him half so well As the bare and broken heather, And the hard and trampled sod, Whence his angry soul ascended To the judgment seat of God! William Edmondstoune Aytoun fashion broken lying Fhairshon swore a feud Against the clan M,Tavish; Marched into their land To murder and to rafish; For he did resolve To extirpate the vipers, With four-and-twenty men And five-and-thirty pipers. William Edmondstoune Aytoun twenties land men Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors
